Brooklyn Public Librarian Ben Gocker recently shared this series of drawings made by students at Manual Training High School for their literary-art publication, Prospect.
High School Illustrated
Posts Tagged: 1940s
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Farm Girls
Mexican girls, carrot workers, Edinburg, Texas. 1939
A spectrum of farm girls—from the 4-H farm lifestyle to young migrant workers in the fields, just trying to deal—during the Great Depression.
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Gangs of Brooklyn
“Crew [of teen gang members] is shown in jiffy wagon as they were transported to Adolescent Court.”
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Summer of ’42
Friends lounge luxuriously at Plage Lavel in Quebec during the steamy Canadian summer of 1942.
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Jon Savage Presents: Teenage Reads
Working on your summer reading list? Jon Savage, author of Teenage: The Creation of Youth Culture 1875-1945, the book that Teenage film is based, presents his teen-centric recommends — I read hundreds of books by and about teenagers for the “Teenage” book and these are among my favourites:
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Shop Girls
Plaids & pleats, sweater sets & caps—teen girls in Louisville, Kentucky model the hottest styles for high school at the department store Kaufman-Straus in 1945.
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Kevin Killian Presents: The More the Merrier
THE MORE THE MERRIER: LENORA MATTINGLY WEBER’S BEANY MALONE NOVELS
When the internet was new I did all the things everyone did with it, got hooked, sold my soul to eBay, downloaded enough porn to make a string of flesh all around the world, located all my old high school classmates and found myself an internet boyfriend in the former Soviet Union.
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Seeing Double
Another gem from the LIFE Archive! In 1945 the term “teenage” was finally coined.
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Work Work Work & Play
Dance hall, Richwood, West Virginia, 1942
Photographer John Collier, Jr.
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Dutch High
Follow a Dutch high school through ninety years of existence.